Jonathan Cowper-Andrewes wrote: > What about those of us who do printing sustaining in house? > You are welcome to participate, the more the merry :) > We have a team internally (most of which are on the printing-discuss alias), > im sure we could grub together a few of us to help the open-printing cause? > Yes. You need also making yourselves or contributions visible outside. This is a open source community. Say what you want to see happen, contribute visibly, so that others hear about them, got excited about it! Of course, the converse can be true, when we talk about what to do and nothing come forth can be off putting ;(. So if it can't be done, just communicate etc. > What do we need to do to become core contributors? If there are some > guidelines somewhere I can pass these on to the rest of the team and see > if we can drum up some support? > 'Basic definitions' here http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/governance/
Let hear from everyone who want to contribute for now. Do a self introductory even :) -Ghee > Cheers > Jonathan > > * Paul Cunningham (paulcun at talk21.com) wrote: > >> Ghee Teo wrote: >> >>> Paul Cunningham wrote: >>> >>>> Peter Tribble wrote: >>>> >>>>> Paul Cunningham<paulcun at talk21.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Terminating this community sounds like a very silly thing to do to me. >>>>>> I would go for option B. >>>>>> >>>>> In which case you (collectively) need to come up with at least 3 (and in >>>>> practice 4 is the workable minimum) people to be the new Core >>>>> Contributors and lead printing in the future, and tell the OGB who >>>>> they are. Without those names, we can't move forward with Option B. >>>>> >>>> I suppose it will die then. As normal, "Printing out of sight out of >>>> mind", until it doesn't work. >>>> >>> I believe 3 things must happen to keep the community going: >>> 1. The existing Core contributors speaks out their intention here and >>> satisfied the OGB basic requirements which is reasonable for a community. >>> 2. Some active participants in the community step up and take on more >>> active role and be a core contributor. >>> 3. Each core contributor must be committed to make some form of >>> contributions either in discussion or direction actively. >>> The thought of of "Printing out of sight out of mind" should be not be >>> allowed :) >>> So Paul, will you consider 2 and 3 ? >>> I am putting my name forwards as a core contributor, should the existing >>> 'active' contributors want to take me on. >>> >> You get a 'yes' from me >> >> Paul >> >> >>> So let the discussion continue! >>> >> >> >>>>>> Peter Tribble wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> The Printing community has less than the required minimum of >>>>>>> 3 Core Contributors to govern its affairs and, according to the >>>>>>> OpenSolaris >>>>>>> constitution, should be terminated. The OpenSolaris Governing Board >>>>>>> can >>>>>>> deal with the situation by: >>>>>>> A) Terminating the community >>>>>>> B) Designating at least 3 new Core Contributors in order to >>>>>>> revitalize the community, or >>>>>>> C) Merge this community with another (possibly as a project). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If community members step up and make a good case for options >>>>>>> B or C within the next 30 days (either by guiding the OGB as to who >>>>>>> the new Core Contributors should be, or by advising the OGB what >>>>>>> nature of merger would be in the best interests of the affected >>>>>>> community) then the OGB will work with the community to take that >>>>>>> option forward. Otherwise, the OGB will ask the website community >>>>>>> to terminate the community group, following the procedure set forth >>>>>>> here: >>>>>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/web/infrastructure-setup/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >> -- >> Paul Cunningham >> Software Engineer >> Tel: >> _______________________________________________ >> printing-discuss mailing list >> printing-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > >
